My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Amway Ambots LOVE Bragging About Their Tax Refunds

Seeing as how someone from the IRS is searching for “Amway and federal tax”
and reading the relevant posts on this blog about Amway tax cheaters and tax
time is upon us I thought I’d revisit this whole
get-a-tax-refund-if-you’re-in-Amway that is widely promoted by the Amway cult
leaders.

This was the type of tax advice our Amway upline gave us that everything in
Amway is a tax deduction and they consider Amway tax returns as part of an IBO
income. What the upline really means is the only way an IBO can make money in
Amway is to deduct Amway expenses from the income they earn in their real J.O.B
and the only Amway income comes in the form of a tax refund. Our upline told us
we’d get a big tax refund deducting all our Amway expenses legitimate or not.

At Amway meetings I attended the Platinum and pretty much everyone else in
the room would be bragging how things couldn’t be better and their Amway
business is growing. Then these same IBO’s claim they’re getting a large refund
after filing their income taxes.

My Ambot was fascinated. He had no idea the secret to getting a tax refund -
according to our upline - was to become an Amway IBO. Free money from the
government!

Refund? Ha, that’s a laugh when your business is doing good.

Ambots can not grasp this concept.

If your business makes too much money (income) and you don’t have enough
deductions (expenses) you owe money at tax time. Yay! Business is going great!

If you do not make much money and your expenses are higher that your income
then the government issues you a refund. Boo! Business is the shits!

In other words it is pretty much impossible for an IBO to claim business is
going great and they’re making lots of money in Scamway and then talk out of
the other side of their mouth about how they’re getting a big tax refund. Or as
ambots refer to it: tax return income for running an Amway business.

Most Amway IBO’s in addition to being fake business owners work a dreaded
J.O.B. and are employed by a company and receive regular paychecks. When tax
time comes around those sneaky Amway bastards deduct all their Amway expenses
(XS, Perfect Water, vitamins, food bars, hotels, function tickets, meals,
travel, etc) against their job’s income.

That is the only way most IBO’s make money in Amway. By declaring everything
they spend on Amway as a business expense and deducting it off their job’s
income.

Lying little ambot bastards that they are! Tax cheaters!

Here is a big clue ambots! Unless you own a grocery store, items that you
eat (groceries!) and items you use for cleaning up around your house can not be
deducted as business expenses in order to get a tax refund. When you’re an
Amway IBO if you’re declaring travel and restaurant expenses on your taxes you
better be showing some kind of Amway income profit on selling Amway products.
If Uncle Sam catches up with you you’ll be up shit creek!

What about people who run a legitimate business that’s got nothing to do
with Amway. Legitimate business owners have tax numbers, business licenses,
insurance, and accounting software where all monies received from customers and
all monies paid out in the course of running our business are entered.
Legitimate business expenses that can be used as deductions. We back it all up
on a CD and give it to our accountants at tax time. This is because we’re smart
enough to hire the services of a professional who checks we entered everything
correctly and aren’t missing information and ensures we are not leaving
ourselves exposed and who also does their damnedest to make sure they write off
as many expenses as they legitimately can so that we have less money to pay
back to the government in what we owe in taxes.

For the record - our accountant disagreed with the assholes in our Amway
upline! Refused to handle anything Amway related. Accountants prefer to deal
with legitimate businesses not pyramid schemes.

So much for “never question upline”!

If you are running a pretend Amway business and are taking your upline’s
advice on filling out your taxes so that you can earn your money in Amway
courtesy of a government tax refund check be prepared to end up in big shit in
an audit.

When we were in Amway we were told if nothing else Amway is a good tax
shelter. The taxman might disagree. Here is some more interesting reading:

Hi KMB. You’re right nothing has changed in Amway in decades when it comes to scamming and lying. The only things that change are the faces and the prices going up. It’s amazing how someone can join the Amway cult in the 70s and still be in unless they’re at the top of the pyramid. Amway loser!

Most new Amway IBOs drop out within six months to a year. Those who stay on are usually the "CORE" freaks, who have been completely mesmerized by the Amway bullshit, and who don't seem to notice that they are going broke.

Somebody who has stayed in since the 1970s must be a total fucking zombie.

Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!

If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.5. Posting something creepy anonymously and we can’t track your location because you’re on a mobile device or using hide my ass or some other proxy. I attracted an obsessed fan and one of my blog administrators attracted a cyberstalker. Lets keep it safe for everyone. Anonymous is OK. Creepy anonymous and hiding – go fuck yourselves!6. Posting something that serves no purpose other than to cause fighting.7. Posting bullshit Amway propaganda. We might publish that comment to make fun of you. Otherwise take your agenda somewhere else. Not interested.8. Notice how this blog is written in English? That's our language so keep your comments in English too. If you leave a comment written in another language then we either have to use Google translate to put it into English so everyone can understand what you wrote or we can hit the Delete button. Guess which one is easier for us to do?9. We suspect you're a troublemaking Amway asshole.10. Your comment got caught in the spam filter. Gets checked occasionally. We’ll get to you eventually and approve it as long as it really isn’t spam.

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I'm married to a former Ambot - one of those annoying commissioned Amway salespeople. Fortunately he saw the light of the horrible cult he was part of and ended his association. I'm here to report on the crap he took and I had to put up with. Hoping I might be able to help some poor souls who find themselves in the same situation I was - married to an ambot.